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This brief summary of the issues of biomedical ethics provides a balanced, systematic, unbiased framework designed to help health professionals an lay people understand and analyze a wide range of topics that are currently controversial in medicine or that are likely to arise in the future.Broad in scope, it considers ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions, including those of non-western cultures such as Asian religious and secular traditions. Topics include the history of codes of ethics; the definition of death, abortion, animal rights and welfare; problems in deciding what will benefit patients; confidentiality, truth-telling, informed consent; the care of the terminally ill; genetics, birth technologies; and problems of social ethics, including resource allocation, organ transplant, and human subjects research.For use in allied health fields.… (more)
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CONTENTS:
A map of the terrain of ethics
The Hippocratic oath and its challengers: a brief history
The basis of moral standing in debates on defining death, abortion, stem cells, and animal welfare
Principle-based approaches to moral problems in bioethics
Alternative approaches: virtues, casuistry and narrative ethics, feminist approaches, and care ethics
Problems in benefiting and avoiding harm to the patient
The ethics of respect for persons: lying, cheating, and breaking promises, and why physicians have considered them ethical
The principle of avoiding killing
Death and dying for patients who are not their own decision-makers
Human control of life: genetics and modifying human nature
Reproductive choice and advancing technologies: ethical challenges in the creation of humans
Social ethics of medicine: allocating resources, health insurance, transplantation, and human subjects research.